Marc Buyens
Bonheiden, Belgium
just choosing paths...
Analyst, management consultant and managing director of Xpragma
Marc founded Xpragma in 1999 after a 20+ years career in the IT-sector where he held various technical, commercial and management positions in companies such as CIG (later acquired by CSC), Tandem Computers (now: HP) and Candle Corporation (now: IBM).
His current interests focus on the boundary of technological evolution, organisational change and business strategy: a messy world of unfulfilled promises.
Some of Marc's ideas and insights are published via the Xpragmatic View, a regular column on his website, http://www.xpragma.com/, also available as an RSS-feed at http://www.xpragma.com/english/rss/xpven.xml.
MSc - Civil Engineer electromechanics - Catholique University of Leuven (Belgium), MBA - Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School (Belgium).
Private interests: nature, music, literature, travel, philosophy, cosmology, modern art
Marc founded Xpragma in 1999 after a 20+ years career in the IT-sector where he held various technical, commercial and management positions in companies such as CIG (later acquired by CSC), Tandem Computers (now: HP) and Candle Corporation (now: IBM).
His current interests focus on the boundary of technological evolution, organisational change and business strategy: a messy world of unfulfilled promises.
Some of Marc's ideas and insights are published via the Xpragmatic View, a regular column on his website, http://www.xpragma.com/, also available as an RSS-feed at http://www.xpragma.com/english/rss/xpven.xml.
MSc - Civil Engineer electromechanics - Catholique University of Leuven (Belgium), MBA - Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School (Belgium).
Private interests: nature, music, literature, travel, philosophy, cosmology, modern art
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Is Twitter a Complex Adaptive System? « emergent by designI’ve seen a bunch of posts bubble up over the past few days that are really sparking my curiousity about what is really going on with Twitter, so I need to do a little brain dump.
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The Spooky World Of Quantum Biology | h+ MagazineThe Spooky World Of Quantum Biology The new science of quantum biology is teaching us about how the actual behavior of evolution is governed by disconcertingly spooky processes – time travel being one of them. Will quantum computation finally be realized by biomimicry, in organic systems? ...
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Reaching for the edge - The Xpragmatic ViewThe Xpragmatic View #129 October 25, 2009 by Marc Buyens ( @mbuyens ), Xpragma Download as a PDF-file Real solutions and progress emerge when we are able to unify apparently conflicting views on the same reality. Do emergent social software platforms (ESSPs) provide a context for ...
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The M-Shaped Recovery - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.orgRehabilitation begins with the understanding that it's brain-dead to build an economy on Big Macs, SUVs, and McMansions. Why? They don't make others authentically, durably better off. In fact, their net economic effect is this: they simply transfer value from the poorest to the richest.
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Lessons Learned -- Why the Failure of Systems Thinking Should Inform the Future of Design Thinking | Manage by Designing | Fast Company"You never learn by doing something right ‘cause you already know how to do it. You only learn from making mistakes and correcting them." Russell Ackoff
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Business processes are not your businessHello Kurt, Thanks for the comments. You are of course right, but you are a BPM-guy. Let me tell you a bit about the background of this. Several years ago, I participated as a coach in the e-Business Strategy training program of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. This was a ...Marc Buyens added to Business Interaction Management (BIM) 7 months ago
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The Enterprise 2.0 Recovery PlanOff-topic but a few of his ideas are interesting in the context of interactions within an organisation.Marc Buyens added to Business Interaction Management (BIM) 11 months ago
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Add items shared with you to interest feedThat is correct. However, the problem (for me) is that I pay little attention to such e-mail messages. I work a lot off-site at customer premises where I prefer not mixing my personal stuff and theirs. Therefore, I only read my personal e-mail once or twice a day. At such moment, I mostly ignore ...Marc Buyens added 11 months ago
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HolarchyVery valid points and very visually described. I like the idea of diving managers. Still, nothing blocks them from doing so today. In fact, most of what you describe can also be possible in a traditional hierarchical organisation. Perhaps no natural fit, but still possible and I can even say ...Marc Buyens added to Organizational Behavior 12 months ago
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HolarchyInteresting questions and the very essence of the twine I started myself on “Organisational change”. Unfortunately, there is no straightforward answer. Rearranging the boxes in a graph is an interesting starting point for discussion, but does not provide a solution. As an example, in your ...Marc Buyens added to Organizational Behavior 12 months ago
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